This book provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the
strategic behavior in queues. The author presents the material in an easy style with mostly …

In this note, we discuss issues pertaining to end-to-end quality-of-service management of
commodity Internet applications and associated pricing incentive mechanisms. The issue of …

In this paper, we study non-cooperative user behavior in random-access wireless networks
in which users have freedom to choose their back-off contention window size according to …

A self-contained text on modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks
This quantitative book focuses on the real issues behind modeling and analysis of …

This dissertation addresses Sybil identity obfuscation attacks in two environments, namely
Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) and BitTorrent. We proposed a location-based Sybil …

We consider the effects of altruistic behavior on random medium access control (slotted
ALOHA) for local area communication networks. For an idealized, synchronously iterative …

In this paper we develop a novel multiple-classes-of service framework where offered prices
and QoS are allowed to be actively modified by the provider, depending on the demand and …

This paper is concerned with the issue of side payments between content providers (CPs)
and Internet service (access bandwidth) providers (ISPs) in an Internet that is potentially not …

We study a problem of trust in a distributed system in which a common resource is shared by
multiple parties. In such naturally information-limited settings, parties are expected to abide …

In this paper we develop a novel method of controlling the demand in a multi-class, QoS-
enabled network, using pricing and resource allocation for income maximisation. We first …